Both warring sides in eastern Ukraine are perpetrating war crimes almost daily, including torturing prisoners and summarily killing them, the Amnesty International rights group said in a report Friday. Amnesty said in a statement that it has heard from former captives of both Ukrainian ...

Japan is “extremely isolated” from the world on the question of the death penalty, according to Jan Wetzel, a senior policy adviser at human rights and capital punishment lobby group Amnesty International. Wetzel said 22 countries carried out capital punishment last year, or “about ...

A prominent human rights group hopes the decision to release the world’s longest serving death row inmate will spur greater debate in Japan about capital punishment and spur domestic reforms. Chiara Sangiorgio, spokeswoman for Amnesty International, said Wednesday she is happy with last year’s ...

Myanmar pardoned and began freeing 3,073 prisoners Tuesday in an amnesty that virtually excluded political prisoners despite a presidential pledge to free all such detainees by year’s end. Most of those released had committed minor crimes, but at least eight were former intelligence officers ...

The Philippine government will grant amnesty to Muslim guerrillas who are facing or have been convicted on rebellion-related charges under a newly signed peace pact, which calls for the 11,000-strong rebel force to be deactivated, an official said Sunday. Presidential peace adviser Teresita Deles ...

Human rights group Amnesty International slammed Japan on Wednesday for resuming the use of capital punishment last year after a 20-month gap between executions. The previous, Democratic Party of Japan-led government resumed the use of capital punishment in March 2012, executing 10 people since ...